Anders Petersen
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Øster Farimagsgade 2A
1350 København K
Office hours: Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
Research fields
- Visual attention and memory
- Mathematical modeling
- Eye tracking, pupillometry and EEG
Research group memberships
- Center for Visual Cognition (Department of Psychology)
Research: brief description
Anders Petersen is associate professor in quantitative methods at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on developing tools for investigating human visual attention and short-term memory by using mathematical modeling, eye tracking, and EEG, contributing to the continuous development of the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA; see Bundesen, Vangkilde & Petersen, 2014, and Tünnermann et al., 2022, for latest developments). A major focus of his research has been on the development of paradigms to measure temporal dynamics of visual attention (see Petersen & Vangkilde, 2022, and Petersen & Kyllingsbæk, 2013) and he has developed the first quantitative stochastic model explaining the attentional dwell-time phenomenon (see Petersen et. al. 2012, 2013) and the first TVA model applied to mouse data obtained from the 5-CSRTT attention task (Fitzpatrick et al., 2017).
Grants
- Are you in control? The Cognitive Control and Arousal Project (CoCoA), Independent Research Fund Denmark (2020-2024).
- Individualised Diagnostics and Rehabilitation for Attentional disorders (INDIREA), EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (2013-2017), Danish cluster (PI: Prof. Claus Bundesen).
Teaching
- Course coordinator, Statistics I and II, BA-level.
- Statistics, MA-level.
- Summer courses in statistics, BA- and MA-level.
- Cognitive Psychology, BA-level.
Selected publications
- Published
Decomposing the Attentional Blink
Petersen, Anders & Vangkilde, Signe, 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 48, 8, p. 812-823Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Measuring and Modelling Attentional Dwell Time
Petersen, Anders, Kyllingsbæk, Søren & Bundesen, C., 2012, In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 19, 6, p. 1029-1046 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Visual Attention in Posterior Stroke and Relations to Alexia
Petersen, Anders, Vangkilde, Signe, Fabricius, C., Iversen, H. K., Delfi, T. & Starrfelt, Randi, 2016, In: Neuropsychologia. 92, p. 79-89Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Eye Movements and Practice Effects in the Attentional Dwell Time Paradigm
Petersen, Anders & Kyllingsbæk, Søren, 2013, In: Experimental Psychology. 60, 1, p. 22-33 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Advances in the application of a computational Theory of Visual Attention (TVA): Moving towards more naturalistic stimuli and game-like tasks
Tünnermann, J., Kristjánsson, Á., Petersen, Anders, Schubö, A. & Scharlau, I., 2022, In: Open Psychology. 4, p. 27-46Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Recent developments in a computational theory of visual attention (TVA)
Bundesen, C., Vangkilde, Signe & Petersen, Anders, 2015, In: Vision Research. 116, Part B, p. 210-218 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) applied to mice in the 5-choice serial reaction time task
Fitzpatrick, C. M., Caballero-Puntiverio, M., Gether, Ulrik, Habekost, Thomas, Bundesen, C., Vangkilde, Signe, Woldbye, David Paul Drucker, Andreasen T., Jesper & Petersen, Anders, 2017, In: Psychopharmacology. 234, 5, p. 845-855Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Phasic alerting increases visual attention capacity in younger but not in older individuals
Wiegand, I. M., Petersen, Anders, Bundesen, C. & Habekost, Thomas, 2017, In: Visual Cognition. 25, 1-3, p. 343-357Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Attentional dwell times for targets and masks
Petersen, Anders, Kyllingsbæk, Søren & Bundesen, C., 2013, In: Journal of Vision. 13, 3, p. 1-12 12 p., 34.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Interaction Between Object-Based Attention and Pertinence Values Shapes the Attentional Priority Map of a Multielement Display
Gillebert, C. R., Petersen, Anders, Van Meel, C., Müller, T., McIntyre, A., Wagemans, J. & Humphreys, G. W., 2016, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42, 6, p. 866-877Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Temporal expectancy in the context of a theory of visual attention
Vangkilde, Signe, Petersen, Anders & Bundesen, C., 2013, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 368, 1628, p. 1-11 11 p., 20130054.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Does attention speed up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry
Tünnermann, J., Petersen, Anders & Scharlau, I., 2015, In: Journal of Vision. 15, 3, p. 1-27 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Testing attention: Comparing the ANT with TVA based assessment
Habekost, Thomas, Petersen, Anders & Vangkilde, Signe, 2014, In: Behavior Research Methods. 46, 1, p. 81-94 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Intensive video gaming improves encoding speed to visual short-term memory in young male adults
Wilms, I. L., Petersen, Anders & Vangkilde, Signe, 2013, In: Acta Psychologica. 142, 1, p. 108-118 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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